Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 380 Earth's Veins
There are sixteen months left until the [Nine Luminaries Celestial Array] is completed.

Following Luo Qing's instructions, Li Bai placed an array plate that he couldn't understand on Earth, the main gathering place of intelligent life.

The array plate was placed directly at the core of the Earth.

"I wonder what this is for." Li Bai, soaking in the lava-filled earth's core, gazed thoughtfully at the array plate churning in the lava.

The array was enormous, with a diameter of over one kilometer. It had a three-dimensional twelve-pointed star structure and was immersed in high-pressure, high-temperature magma from the Earth's core. It took a long time for it to stabilize.

Subsequently, Li Bai noticed that the array plate, which resembled a star core, emitted invisible patterns that spread at the speed of light to all life on the entire planet and even in the solar system.

Li Bai could not see these patterns, but he could clearly feel the faint energy fluctuations, with billions of invisible threads connecting to every intelligent being.

Then, vague, exhilarating emotions representing new life were born throughout the planet.

"This……"

Li Bai frowned; he couldn't understand this phenomenon at all.

Why do planets have emotions? As a product of material sedimentation, why do planets develop emotions unique to life?
Shortly after this exhilarating emotion arose, the phantom of the Emperor's Banner, which had originally enveloped the entire solar system, began to shrink, completely exceeding the speed of light, and within a few seconds it contracted into the star's core.

Thus, Luo Qing's handcrafted underworld, embedded deep within the earth, finally found a place to reside.

Li Bai gazed at the radiant golden banner, which seemed to exude an aura of reincarnation, and fell into deep thought once again.

"What exactly are these? They are clearly aggregates of energy and matter, but why do these energies and matter seem to possess consciousness?"

In Li Bai's understanding, there was only one way to make pure energy possess consciousness: that is, the energy becomes part of a god, and then the god himself can think.

Energy is disordered and highly entropy, while the essence of consciousness implies logic and order. These are completely contradictory, but the twelve-pointed star array in front of us, which resembles a star core, completely violates this law.

"All done, Brother Bai?"

Luo Qing suddenly appeared beside Li Bai, nodded as he looked at the earth's core that had already begun to operate. Sure enough, having helpers to set up the formation made things much faster; if he had to do it by himself, it would have taken forever.

"Why are you so late? What were you doing?"

"I chatted with some friends about the universe, physics, science, and things like that," Luo Qing explained.
Li Bai was displeased. "With the current level of technological development of human civilization, we probably can't even fully recognize the basic features of the universe. Instead of chatting with your human friends, you should just ask me directly. I can answer all your questions about the laws of the universe."

"Of course I trust Brother Bai, but there's a saying that goes, 'Those involved are often confused, while bystanders see clearly.' Sometimes, the deeper our understanding of the universe, the easier it is to fall into a trap. On the contrary, it's the imagination of ignorant humans about the universe that's more interesting."

Li Bai thought about it carefully and felt that Luo Qing's words made a lot of sense. The universe is just a few things, and it would be boring if you explained it all. In the end, it would all perish. On the contrary, these new civilizations are full of wonderful imagination about the universe. It is quite interesting to listen to these new civilizations' visions for the future.

Currently, the construction of the Nine Luminaries Celestial Array is 40% complete, much faster than expected. The most crucial step, the array centered on Earth, has also been connected. The next step is to travel to Mars and the Great Ring.

Once these first five planets are connected as one, the Nine Luminaries Celestial Array will be half-completed and will possess full offensive capabilities.

Highly degenerate photon rays, starfire spears, and a giant ring amplification effect are enough to defeat enemies at the Tribulation Transcending stage.

Even monsters at the Earth Immortal level, such as the extraterrestrial demons from my hometown that were wiped out in the first playthrough, can be completely defeated.

The power of the universe itself far exceeds Luo Qing's imagination. This grand formation is essentially just an application of the power of stars and the power of that light amber.

This is much more effective than building an array with a few spirit stones. Once the giant ring array is complete, we can consider the subsequent Jupiter, Saturn, Sea, and Sky planets. These four outer ring planets mainly serve as defensive modules of the array to defend against light particle attacks.

Luo Qing took a closer look at the earth core, which had been refined for over 120 years by cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage, and was capable of bearing the consciousness of the earth veins, the will of all living beings, and the rudimentary form of the underworld. He felt a sense of感慨 (gǎnkǎi, mixed feelings of emotion and reflection).

Everyone knows that he loved seclusion and spent at least 170 of his 200-plus years in this world in seclusion. But no one knows how much he actually researched during his seclusion. In addition to improving his cultivation, he also mastered all kinds of arts and crafts in the cultivation of immortality.

He had rubbed quite a few things like the Earth's core by hand.

"Let's go, Brother Bai. Earth is all taken care of. Next, we'll head to Mars and try to finish within a month. Mars, as the [Crimson Blade Pivot], is the core attack unit of this formation. Its main responsibility is to 'shoot out' the sun's energy to form the 'Starfire Spear,' which is a very crucial step."

The Starfire Spear can easily penetrate materials with strong interaction forces, causing neutron decay. Luo Qing has high expectations for the power of the Starfire Spear. He estimates that the pure energy of the Starfire Spear is enough to penetrate all non-black hole structures in three-dimensional space and cause terrifying damage to enemies in the three-dimensional universe.

If one can enter a higher-dimensional space by following the warp point of that space, then destroying its higher-dimensional enemy is not impossible.

After all, in this low-energy three-dimensional universe, it is not difficult to reach the energy level of the sixth dimension by condensing the energy density of the sun's true fire. As long as one can penetrate into the corresponding higher-dimensional space, enemies below the sixth dimension will be completely ignited by the boiling energy, turning into disordered high entropy and collapsing in this universe.

Just as Luo Qing was urging Li Bai to leave, Li Bai unexpectedly called out to him.

"Luo Qing, there's something I don't understand."

Luo Qing looked puzzled: "What's unclear?"

Li Bai's expression was serious: "The moment I finished setting up the formation for you, I clearly sensed a joyful emotion spreading throughout the entire planet, as if some kind of consciousness had been born on Earth."

Luo Qing frowned: "What nonsense are you talking about? Planets are just sediments of cosmic matter; how could they possibly possess consciousness?"

Li Bai said, "Of course I know this principle, but I did indeed sense it..."

Luo Qing interrupted, "Describe it to me."

Li Bai then described the feeling to Luo Qing: in a very short period of time, the Earth's magnetic field exhibited regular fluctuations, with the north and south poles shifting many times in a very short time, as if the planets were joyfully rolling around on the ground. Moreover, these regular fluctuations possessed very obvious characteristics of self-awareness.

Luo Qing interrupted impatiently once again after listening: "Changes in the magnetic field of a planet are nothing unusual in this universe. You are a god who has traveled to countless planets. How can you make such an irresponsible assumption?"

"Is that so?" Li Bai asked, puzzled.

Luo Qing comforted the other person, saying, "From a probabilistic point of view, anything can happen."

"What's going on with the change in the magnetic field that I just felt seems to connect to all intelligent life on Earth? The magnetic field lines seem to be connected to everyone as if they have a mind of their own." Li Bai tried his best to describe his feelings to Luo Qing.

Upon hearing this, Luo Qing's expression became even more serious.

“Brother Bai, magnetic field lines are imaginary curves introduced to intuitively describe the distribution and direction of the magnetic field. They are not real physical entities. How could you possibly feel them? I think your imagination lacks rationality. Moreover, the Earth's magnetic field starts from the south pole, circles around the Earth's exterior and returns to the north pole, and then returns from the Earth's interior from the north pole to the south pole, forming a complete loop. How could it possibly connect to a person?”

Li Bai was convinced by Luo Qing's detailed physical evidence.

"Okay, maybe I was just imagining things."

"Hmm~" Luo Qing nodded in satisfaction.

(End of this chapter)